To: All Faculty & All Academic Professionals & All Civil Service Staff &
           All Undergrad Students & All Grad Students <everybody@illinois.edu> 
    From: "Vice President and Chancellor Robert A. Easter" <chancellor@illinois.edu>

Reply-To: stewardingexcellence@illinois.edu
 Subject: MASSMAIL - Stewarding Excellence @ Illinois

Date:  	August 16, 2011

From:	Robert A. Easter
	Interim Vice President, University of Illinois
	Interim Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

	Richard P. Wheeler
	Interim Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Provost

Re:	Stewarding Excellence @ Illinois

As we close out the 2010-2011 academic year, while looking forward to the 
return of our students, I wanted to point with pride to what we have 
accomplished.  All across our campus, administrators, faculty, staff and 
students came together and addressed the challenges and uncertainties 
presented to us.  Every campus unit was called upon to make difficult 
fiscal, programmatic, procedural and other decisions necessary to ensure 
that we were able to best serve our students and fulfill our educational, 
research and outreach missions.  Despite additional cuts to state 
funding, our collective efforts have equipped the campus with the 
resources to reinvest in the critically important areas of a campus 
salary program, faculty hiring, physical infrastructure and other core 
initiatives.  

The Stewarding Excellence @ Illinois initiative was a significant part of 
the collaborative effort to address the unprecedented fiscal challenges 
facing the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and to do so in a 
way that continues and enhances our stature as a world-class institution. 

Please take the time to go to the following link to read more about our 
accomplishments and about recent personnel changes.  Again, I want to 
thank each and every one of you for your efforts.

http://www.oc.illinois.edu/budget/summary2011.html


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